Fay Bainter
Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. MGM persuaded her to try films and her movie debut was in This Side of Heaven (February 1934), the same year she appeared in Dodsworth on Broadway and in the film It Happened One Day...
Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. MGM persuaded her to try films and her movie debut was in This Side of Heaven (February 1934), the same year she appeared in Dodsworth on Broadway and in the film It Happened One Day...
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The Children's Hour
as Amelia Tilford
The President's Lady
as Mrs. Donaldson
Close to My Heart
as Mrs. Morrow
June Bride
as Paula Winthrop
Give My Regards to Broadway
as Fay Norwick
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Eunice Mitty
Deep Valley
as Ellie Saul
The Virginian
as Mrs. Taylor
The Kid from Brooklyn
as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
State Fair
as Melissa Frake
3 Is a Family
as Frances Whittaker
Dark Waters
as Aunt Emily
The Heavenly Body
as Margaret Sibyll
Cry 'Havoc'
as Captain Marsh
Salute to the Marines
as Jennie Bailey
Presenting Lily Mars
as Mrs. Thornway
The Human Comedy
as Mrs. Macauley
Journey for Margaret
as Trudy Strauss
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Stella Livingston Hadley
Woman of the Year
as Ellen Whitcomb
Babes on Broadway
as Miss Jones
Maryland
as Charlotte Danfield
A Bill of Divorcement
as Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
Our Town
as Mrs Gibbs
Young Tom Edison
as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Ellen Carter
Daughters Courageous
as Nancy 'Nan' Masters
The Lady and the Mob
as Hattie Leonard
Yes, My Darling Daughter
as Ann Murray